That harsh memory has kept most southern Shiites sitting on their hands this time.
Mainly poverty, their own husbands, violence, drink and the harsh memory of nuns, with them to the end.
The timeline of the war is familiar, but this program enhances it with moving interviews with veterans who, in one way or another, testify to the burden of carrying harsh memories for a lifetime.
Though he and I both find it therapeutic to study our native culture from the safe distance of books, documentaries, and social media, it's harsh memories like these that can make an immersive activity like visiting a hell houses kind of triggering.
And these aren't harsh memories.
"Harsh memories of the global financial crisis pervaded Wall Street in 2014 – at least, for the highest-earning hedge fund managers," Alpha said.
Economic and social uncertainty may now be looming for more and more of us, but it is only the old who have those harsh memories to insulate themselves from the consumerist calls of right-wing policymakers to "make our own provision" and be freed from "dependence on the state".
He was, in Scruton's memory, a harsh man; he would not allow his children to read Beatrix Potter because, he claimed, "it polluted the image of the countryside with cosy bourgeois sentiment and turned our wild Saxon inheritance into a suburban fairytale".
In a rehearsal of "12 Chairs" in May, this sense was difficult to discern; the dance was still unfinished, and there were the typical distractions of a rehearsal: harsh lighting, memory lapses, lack of distance.
For all the nostalgia "Follies" lavished on the past, its message was a harsh warning against living on memories and clutching at one's youthful illusions.
